Ajax

Xmlhttprequest

Xml. Prototype. Deep Linking for AJAX. I have just made a independent study on “deep linking for AJAX” for the course Web 2.0 technology.

Seems that most of the info on the web about deep linking implementation are for Flash web site but not AJAX’s, so I release my report and presentation slide here hoping can help somebody. What is Deep Linking Deep Linking is a URL that point to a specific resource like a web page or a file. User can access the resource directly through the URL without further navigation (ie. bypassing “home” or “portal” page). Why is Deep Linking Important Deep linking is originally a build-in function of the web, enabling the web pages to be interconnected, letting the users go to a specific resource easily by clicking on the links from any web page.

Moreover, deep linking is the basic requirement for bookmarking. Search engines, which index the web pages like we bookmark them, require heavily on deep linking too. To conclude, it is the matter of usability. The Situation of AJAX Low Level Concept SWFAddress (
Spry framework for AJAX. When Adobe first introduced Spry, our goal was to bring Ajax capabilities to the web design community, allowing designers to create web pages that provided a richer experience for the end user.

As we know, however, the web evolves at a blistering pace. Over the last couple of years, frameworks such as JQuery have evolved to encompass many of the capabilities originally envisaged for Spry, making Spry as a standalone offering less relevant. As we can continue to focus our efforts in furthering the web, we have decided to no longer invest in the development of Spry. We do however recognize that for some designers it continues to provide value. As such, we are making the Spry framework, along with supporting documentation and example code, available on GitHub under an MIT license so that designers will continue to have access to the framework and can customize/extend it as required.